“We're spending billions of dollars protecting countries that should be paying us to do the job yet we can't build roads in our own cities. We can't build schools in our own communities. I've been to China numerous times, and everywhere you look there are cranes reaching toward the sky. The Chinese build new cities over there in about 12 minutes, while we take years to get the permits to add a dormer window to our own homes. ”

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Trump stating that the U.S. invests too much abroad when it is needed at home.

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